International Journal of Research in Social Sciences

  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 1

Sociology of homosexuality and dangerous bodies? critical view from HIV/AIDS discourse

  • Author:
  • Joydeb Patra
  • Total Page Count: 18
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 801 to 818

UGC-JRF Doctoral Research Scholar, Department of Sociology, Vidyasagar University

Abstract

This paper study on the relationship between homophobia/homosexuality to HIV/AIDS. Gay men and their sexual orientation consider to be a ‘homosexual’, who are disproportionately burden by HIV/AIDS. where HIV/AIDS remain a pressing or representing as a public health issue to reintroduce as criminalization of homosexuality and their bodies categories as “dangerous”, which might be untold damage to HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention campaign. Thus, sociology has provided empirical tools in its examination of homosexual sub-cultural within cultural milieu. There has been independent emerged ‘HIV/AIDS Discourse‘ is a body of research which showing a variety forms of institutionalized Homosexuality which embedded with power and ideology.

Keywords

Sociology, Homosexuality, Dangerous Bodies, HIV/AIDS discourse